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Let's get lost
- Title
- Let's get lost [videorecording] / produced by Nan Bush.
- Publication
- New York : Zeitgeist, 1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | VTH 2590 L | Offsite |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Weber, Bruce.
- Description
- 1 videocassette (119 min.) : sd., b&w.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Chet Baker, a jazz beacon with a "heart-breaking trumpet," a "heart-broken voice," and "doomed youth" good looks, lived and died like a Kerouac creation. Weber's candid interviews with the ravaged 58-year-old musician were undertaken during a journey across America and Europe. These encounters form the basis of a "visceral" composite representing the various stages of Baker's troubled life. It includes early glimpses of Baker as a handsome young jazz trumpeter in the mid-50's; footage of a still-handsome Baker in the 60's with excerpts from his Italian B-movie appearances and the musician's painful decline due to an increasing drug habit. Weber's biographical portrait is complemented by rare performance footage and the often hilarious testimony of friends, fellow musicians and bickering ex-wives. Soon after the film's completion, Baker died from a fall out of an Amsterdam hotel window.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Feature films.
- Credits (note)
- Director, Bruce Weber; photography, Jeff Preiss; editor, Angelo Corrao; music, Chet Baker; musicians, Frank Strazzeri, John Leftwich, Ralph Penland, Nicola Stilo.
- Title
- Let's get lost [videorecording] / produced by Nan Bush.
- Imprint
- New York : Zeitgeist, 1989.
- Credits
- Director, Bruce Weber; photography, Jeff Preiss; editor, Angelo Corrao; music, Chet Baker; musicians, Frank Strazzeri, John Leftwich, Ralph Penland, Nicola Stilo.
- Performer
- Participants: Chet Baker, Carol Baker, Vera Baker, Paul, Dean and Missy Baker, Dick Bock, William Claxton, Flea, Hersh Hamel, Chris Isaak, Lisa Marie, Andy Minsker, Jack Sheldon, Lawrence Trimble, Joyce Night Tucker, Cherry Vanilla, Diane Vavra, Ruth Young.
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- Added Author
- Weber, Bruce.
- Branch Call Number
- VTH 2590 L